Nutrition
Poor nourishment resulting from an inadequate or improper diet or from some metabolic defect that keeps the body from using food properly.
What is malnutrition?
Stress, urge, overflow, reflex, functional and transient.
What is: the major types of urinary incontinence?
Dehiscence and evisceration
Hemorrhage
infection
What is complications of wounds?
5 basic Human senses
What is sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch?
One of the most prominent figures in nursing history, also known as “the lady with the lamp”
Florence Nightingale
Difficulty swallowing
What is dysphagia?
Age, pregnancy, diet, immobility, psychosocial factors, pain, surgical procedures and medications.
What is: factors that affect urinary elimination?
Local damage to the skin and tissues following prolonged or intense pressure. It usually occurs over bony prominences or on areas where a device or object is in contact with the skin.
What is a pressure injury?
The number of cranial nerves that control both sensory and motor function
What is 12 nerves?
The regulatory agency that sets quality standards for accreditation of health care facilities
The Joint Commission (TJC)
Providing nutrition through a nongastrointestinal route, either intravenously or subcutaneously.
What is parenteral nutrition?
Engorged and dilated blood vessels in the rectal wall from difficult defecation, common in pregnancy, liver disease and heart failure.
What is: hemorrhoids?
Contains both blood and serum. It is watery and looks pale and pink due to a mixture of red and clear fluid.
What is serosanguineous drainage?
when a client has a deficit in the expected function of one or more of their five senses.
What is sensory deficit?
The combined effort of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems to maintain posture, alignment, and balance in daily life
Body mechanics
Essential organic substances that can be absorbed with lipids, specifically, Vitamins A, D, E, and K.
What are Fat-soluble vitamins?
A sterile specimen from a straight or indwelling catheter using surgical asepsis.
What is: A catheter urine specimen for culture and sensitivity?
uses foam strips laid into the wound bed with an occlusive sealed drape applied and suction tubing placed for negative pressure to occur once the tubing is connected to the therapy unit. It speeds up tissue generation, decreases swelling, and enhances healing in a moist, protected environment.
What is vacuum-assisted closure systems?
clouding of the lens of the eye that causes the client’s vision to be blurry, hazy, or less colorful.
What is Cataract?
The body’s natural defense when injured, when foreign substances are present, or when infectious agents attack
Inflammatory response
Mental health disorder characterized by an extreme fear of becoming overweight and often resulting in life-threatening weight loss. It manifests in not eating or loss of appetite, body image disturbance, and amenorrhea.
What is anorexia nervosa?
Performed using sterile technique to maintain patency or remove a blockage of an indwelling urinary catheter.
What is: closed intermittent irrigation
Visible adipose tissue with possible granulation tissue and epibole, some slough, eschar, present. no exposed muscle, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, or bone. Possible undermining or tunneling.
What is a stage 3 pressure injury?
The test where dye is injected into a peripheral vein, then photos are taken of the vessels in the eye as the dye flows through them
What is Fluorescein angiography?
The following labs indicate:
pH: 7.33
PaCO2: 35
HCO3: 20
Metabolic acidosis